About this role:
Wells Fargo is seeking a Technology Director in Cybersecurity as part of Identity Access Management Engineering. Learn more about career areas and business divisions at wellsfargojobs.com
This role will lead modernization efforts across our identity infrastructure, with a focus on Azure Active Directory and legacy AD environments. This role is critical to enhancing our security posture, enabling seamless access experiences, and aligning with Zero Trust principles in a highly regulated financial environment.
In this role, you will:
Required Qualifications:
Desired Qualifications:
Locations:
Posting Statements:
Wells Fargo is seeking a Technology Director in Cybersecurity as part of Identity Access Management Engineering. Learn more about career areas and business divisions at wellsfargojobs.com
This role will lead modernization efforts across our identity infrastructure, with a focus on Azure Active Directory and legacy AD environments. This role is critical to enhancing our security posture, enabling seamless access experiences, and aligning with Zero Trust principles in a highly regulated financial environment.
In this role, you will:
- Serve as the accountable executive for identity posture improvement, risk reduction, and modernization outcomes
- Manage a team of engineering managers and engineering leads
- Focus on delivering commitments aligned to enterprise strategic priorities
- Build support for strategies with business and technology leaders
- Guide development of actionable roadmaps and plans
- Drive adoption of modern identity capabilities including passwordless authentication, identity governance, and conditional access at scale.
- Provide oversight to software craftsmanship, security, availability, resilience, and scalability of solutions developed by the teams or third party providers
- Identify financial management and strategic resourcing
- Set risk management guidelines and partner with stakeholders to implement key risk initiatives
- Develop strategies for hiring engineering talent
- Lead implementation of projects and encourage engineering innovation
- Collaborate and influence all levels of professionals including more experienced managers
- Lead team to achieve objectives
- Interface with external agencies, regulatory bodies or industry forums
- Manage allocation of people and financial resources for Technology Strategic Leadership
- Develop and guide a culture of talent development to meet business objectives and strategy
Required Qualifications:
- 8+ years of Technology Strategic Leadership experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
- 4+ years of management or leadership experience
- 5+ years of Identity Access Management experience with deep expertise in Azure AD/Entra AD and traditional Active Directory
Desired Qualifications:
- Experience defining and executing enterprise IAM or identity security strategy
- Demonstrated leadership in large-scale identity transformations in regulated environments
- Experience operating hybrid identity platforms at enterprise scale
- Proven ability to design and implement complex AD forests, federation services, and bastion forest solutions
- Strong scripting skills (PowerShell, Graph API)
- Strong understanding of identity protocols and Zero Trust architecture
- Expert-level knowledge of Active Directory, Windows Server (2012/2016/2019), DFS, DNS, LDAP, and Kerberos
- Experience with Azure AD Connect, O365, Exchange Online, and virtualization (VMware, Hyper-V)
- Familiarity with MFA, SSO, Conditional Access, and privileged access management
- Familiarity with regulatory frameworks (SOX, PCI-DSS, GDPR) and financial industry standards
- Preferred certifications: MCSE, Microsoft Certified: Identity and Access Administrator, Azure Solutions Architect, Security+, CISSP
Locations:
- 3075 Loyalty Cir. - Columbus OH 43219
- 401 Las Colinas Blvd W Bldg. A - Irving, TX 75039
- 194 S Wood Ave - Iselin, NJ 08830
Posting Statements:
- Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.
- Required location(s) listed above. Relocation assistance is not available for this position
- Salary range is determined by location of the job. May be considered for a discretionary bonus, Restricted Share Rights, or other long - term incentive awards.
- This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship
Top Skills
Active Directory
Azure Active Directory
Azure Ad Connect
Dfs
Dns
Exchange Online
Graph Api
Hyper-V
Kerberos
Ldap
O365
Powershell
VMware
Windows Server 2012
Windows Server 2016
Windows Server 2019
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